Even the BBC isn’t immune to brand invasion. Viewers of last night’s The Apprentice, You’re Hired were treated to a plug by 2011 winner Tom Pellereau for The Nipper Clipper — a new infant grooming device.

Staff at Asos’s Camden office may have scrutinised their chief executive for any signs of wrinkles, expanding girth, grey hairs or a doddering walk today, following his comments yesterday that prompted an ageism storm.